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...success, Kiss is also -- and here is the hook that intrigues Broadway -- a proven flop. An earlier version received a multimillion-dollar 1990 tryout off-Broadway -- about 25 miles off, at a suburban campus of the State University of New York. The producers implored critics to stay away because the work was in development, but reportorial instincts prevailed. Reviewers came, saw and slaughtered, halting Kiss and killing its sponsor, a fledgling agency set up to nurture musicals. Prince now says, "Irony of ironies, the fiasco may have helped. The show's political consciousness is much better suited to this moment...
...either provocation or remorse, but isn't someone else to blame? The tired excuse of the effects of racism is inapplicable here, as all of those involved were white. The theory of economic deprivation as an inevitable creator of violence also fails to save these residents of middle-class, suburban Dartmouth...
Today his properties have been sold at a loss, his employees all dismissed and his wife and children moved from the suburban house to a small city apartment. His income, earned by running a small real estate management firm, has slid from a peak of $36,000 a month to $5,600. That is not enough even to begin repaying the $5.8 million he owes to a bank and a leasing company; he pays a pittance of $450 a month in interest to the leasing company, nothing to the bank. Hoshino resignedly says "the way things...
Where the suburban Simi Valley jury in the first trial heard prosecutors harp on the videotape, this team meticulously countered defense evidence. On whether King's facial wounds came from police batons, Koon testified, "Mr. King fell like a tree. He made a one-point landing on his face." Dr. Harry Smith of San Antonio, Texas, a leading expert witness, asserted this scenario was impossible. The bones beneath King's right eye were crushed to powder, which required a pressure equivalent to 350 lbs., while his nose, which would have been broken by pressure of about 50 lbs., remained intact...
...those who had participated in "binge-drinking" was significantly higher. A test conducted in Washington D.C. by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showed that with a rudimentary fake ID, an 18-year old could buy alcohol in 97% of the establishments tested. In a similar test in suburban New York, that number was 80%. The biggest effect seems to have been the creation of a booming traffic in fake ID's. No wonder, then, that 45% of college administrators favored rolling back the drinking...